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ABBOTT, Stan. HAMMILL, Harry. WILKINSON, Barry.To Kill a Railway. 1st impression, presentation copy ill. card covers Leading Edge Press and Publishing, 1986, ISBN:0948135018 ABBOTT, Stan. To Kill a Railway : The run-down of the Settle-Carlisle line; the endeavours of 22,265 people and a dog to prevent its closure and the relevance of it all to transport policy in Britain. Cover graphics by Harry Hammill. Picture by Barry Wilkinson/Picture House. (Hawes, North Yorkshire): Leading Edge Press and Publishing, (1986). First Impression. Pp 161. Illustrated with photos, diagrams, cartoons, and maps to text. 8vo, illustrated card covers with erratum slip laid in. "The Settle to Carlisle railway from its birth has achieved the seemingly impossible - in engineering and scenic terms it is one of Britain's wonders And now, under the threat of death, the line is awakening anew spirit. [...]. The campaign to save the line has reached every part of the Kingdom, and a wide-ranging coalition, bringing together local authorities, consumer groups and political parties, has resulted." -from the foreword. Presentation copy signed by the author. Covers rubbed, lovingly thumbed, ow vg. 25.00

ABEL, Deryck. KIRKPATRICK, Ivone, Sir, foreword.Channel Underground : A New Survey of the Channel Tunnel Question. First Edition hardcover in dustjacket.Pall Mall Press, London and Dunmow, 1961, ABEL, Deryck. Channel Underground : A New Survey of the Channel Tunnel Question. With a Foreword by Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick. London and Dunmow : The Pall Mall Press, (1961). First Printing. Pp. (12),xiii-xvi,1-127,(1), frontispiece, + 4 p. of black and white plates. 8vo, red cloth with black letteringto spine. "The Channel Tunnel is no longer a wild dream. It is a technical ly feasible proposition and economically sound. In a few years' time, Pariswill be only a four-hour train journey from London and cars will eb whiske d through to the Continent in well under an hour. It is, nevertheless, a vast project. In this new, comprehensive survey Deryck Abel abses himself on the extensive researches carried out from 1958 to 1960 by the Channel Tunnel Study Group. After an historical survey, covering the last 150 years, he explains the initiatives recently taken bny British, French and American interested parties. his technical survey includes teh conclusions of the geophysicists and an appraisal of engineering devices and techniques -- immersed tube, bridge, railway tunnel, road tunnel, rail-cum-road tunnel. He dealsalso with potential tunnel traffic and its conditioning factors, and final ly with the financial and legal problems involved. At a time when the Common Market and growing unity dominate European development, this book is an essential guide to a project that may well prove to be a turning point in Britain's relationship with the Continent." - from the dustjacket. Fore-edge spotted, else very good in nicked, verso-spotted, unclipped dustjacket. 20.00

AMYOT, Chantal, Bianca GENDREAU, and John WILLIS BROUSSEAU, Francine, ed.Special Delivery : Canada's Postal History. First Edition in dustjacket.Goose Lane Editions, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Canadian Postal Museum, Fredericton and Hull, 2000, ISBN:0864923104 AMYOT, Chantal, Bianca GENDREAU, and John WILLIS. Special Delivery : Canada's Postal History. Edited by Francine Brousseau. Principal photography by Claire Dufour. [Preface by The Honourable André Ouellet]. (Fredericton and Hull): Goose Lane Editions, Canadian Museum of Civilization -- Canadian Postal Museum, (2000). First Printing. Pp. (6),vii-xi,(1),13-150,(2). Illustrated in colour. 4to, black paper covered boards with gilt titles to front andspine. "Sending and receiving mail lies at the heart of our lives and the history of our vast country. Dymbolized by the letter carrier, the letter, or the stamp, the post is part of our daily life. The postal system has taken part in Canada's great historical moments: in the fur trade, in the construction of the railway, on the abttlefield. It has evolved with the rhythmof explorers' journeys and the transformation of the land into the Canada we know today. The post office stands, literally and figuratively, right inthe centre of our villages and cities, and it remains at the centre of our modern communications network. To celebrate Canada's postal heritage, 'Spe cial Delivery' showcases the jewels in the collection of the Canadian Postal Museum and tells the stories of our rarest and most beautiful stamps. Archival photos bring to life horse-drawn wagons and sleighs, early aircraft and snowmobiles, and remote post offices. Modern photos show the jets and trucks that mvoe today's huge volume of mail." - from the dustjacket. Very good in unclipped dustjacket. 25.00

ANDERSON, Jacob E.80 Years of Transportation Progress : A History of the St. Louis Southwestern RailwayCotton Belt News, Tyler, TX, 1957, (ANDERSON, Jacob E.). 80 Years of Transportation Progress : A History of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway . (Tyler, TX: Cotton Belt News, 1957). Pp.[1]-100, including covers. Illustrated. 8vo, illustrated stapled blue and black card covers. "This booklet is published in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the date when the first section of the St. Louis Southwestern(Cotton Belt) Railway began operations. Issued in lieu of the October 1957 edition of Cotton Belt News (Volume 13, Number 8), it presents, in concise form, the history and progressive development of the Cotton Belt." - from verso front cover. Vg. 25.00

ANDERSON, PatrickWhite Centre. First Edition in dustjacketRyerson Press, Toronto, 1946, ANDERSON, Patrick. The White Centre. Toronto : The Ryerson Press, (May 1946). First Printing. Pp (6),vii-viii,(2),1-72,(2). 8vo, white paper covered boards, red lettering to front board and spine, with a matching dustjacket. Watters p.7, Rhodenizer p.946. Patrick John MacAllister Anderson (1915-1979) was an English-born Canadian poet. He taught in McGill University between1940 and 1950. "Patrick Anderson was educated at Oxford, where he was a Sc holar of his College and President of the Union, and at Columbia, where he held a Commonwealth Fellowship. For the past six years he has lived in Montreal, teaching everything from English to hockey at a private school and taking an active part in literary and political movements. He was one of the founders of Preview, and is now an editor of Northern Review. In addition to the subjective poetry for which he is probably best known, he has writtenplays lor a left-wing puppet theatre, also taking several of the parts, pu blished a Victory Broadsheet, given many lectures and readings, and generally tried to establish a closer relation between poet and public. In 1944 hereceived the magazine Poetry's Fellowship Award for verse of social conten t. " from the dj. Contents: "Landscape", "Railway Station", "Mother's Boy","Portrait", "Lovers", "Bombing Berlin", "The Mirror", "The Khaki Beam", "L ate Working", "The Wives", "Armaments Worker", "The Machine", "In the Hospital", "Arnhem", "Order Medical Examination", "Winter In Montreal"(pp.24-26), "Poem on Canada" [pp29-45, with parts. I. Pre-Conquest, II. The Coming ofthe White Man, III.The Country Still Unpossessed, IV.The River [St.Lawrenc e], V. Cold Colloquy], "Wild Duck", "Canoe", "Camp", "Sleighride", "Ski Train", "Dancer", "Boy In a Russian Blouse" "The Drunk", "Shopping", "Night Rising", "Childhood Memory", "Snow and Sleep", "Children Drinking Milk", "At the Ballet", "First Day of Spring, 1944", "The Statues ". Very good in browned dustjacket. 35.00

ANGUS, FredLoyalist City Streetcars : The Story of Street Railway Transit in Saint John, New Brunswick. First Edition in dustjacketRailfare Enterprises Limited and The New Brunswick Museum, Toronto / Saint John:, 1979, ISBN:0919130291 ANGUS, Fred. Loyalist City Streetcars : The Story of Street Railway Transitin Saint John, New Brunswick. Toronto / Saint John: "Published jointly by Railfare Enterprises Limited and The New Brunswick Museum", 1979. First Edition. Pp i-ii,1-82. Double column. Illustrated. Small folio, reddish-brown imitation leather. "For nearly 80 years the city was served by streetcars, originally horse-drawn and later powered by electricity. The history of thevarious companies which ran the streetcars in Saint John is one of conside rable interest, full of ambitious schemes, disappointments, frustrations, reorganizations, modernizations, plus innumerable anecdotes and legends. Except for the period 1876 to 1887, the streetcars ran from 1869 to 1948. Overthe years the number of cars run was surprisingly large in relation to the size of the system. By the time the last trams gave way to buses most Nort h American systems of comparable size had long since been abandoned, and the single-truck hand-braked cars were relics of a bygone era. In Loyalist City Streetcars, author Fred Angus captures the flavour of Canada's port city, and tells the story of New Brunswick's first street railway. You'll read about the bottleneck created by the original bridge over the famous Reversing Falls, with its inability to carry the weight of electric cars causing adivision of the street railway into two physically-separate sections.. See the streetcars meet steamboats at Indiantown, for the journey into town to bypass the falls. Hear how the horse gave way to electricity in J 893. Say "Thanks", along with all Saint John riders and residentss, tor the cars' hand-brakes which — with operator skill and much good luck - worked well enough in 54 years ot electric operation, to avoid any serious runaway streetcars down the city's treacherous hills. Read about the wild winter snows grinding the system to a halt. See cars built by Ahearn & Soper, Montreal Street Railway, the Ottawa Car Company, Tillsonburg Electric Car Company, and many more. Study the damage inflicted to turned-over cars during the labour strife of 1914, and how the army was called out to quell the uprising. [....]" - from the dj Contents: Foreword, Chapters : 1. Introduction to Saint John; 2. The People's Street Railway; 3. Saint John City Railway Company; 4. The Start of Electrification; 5. Complete Rebuilding; 6. Turn of the Century; 7. Years of Expansion; 8. The Coming of One-Man Cars; 9. Modernization and Rehabilitaion; 10. Depression, Decline and War; 11. End of the Trams; 12. Conclusion. Roster I. Work Cars; Roster II. Passenger Cars. Very good in dustjacket. 32.50

ARMSTRONG, Christopher and H.V. NELLES NELLES, H.V.Monopoly's Moment : The Organization and Regulation of Canadian Utilities, 1830-1930. pbk.University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1988, ISBN:0802067093 ARMSTRONG, Christopher and H.V. NELLES. Monopoly's Moment : The Organization and Regulation of Canadian Utilities, 1830-1930 . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1988). Pp. (6),vii-xiii,(1),[1]-393,(1). 8vo, printed browncard covers. "In this award-winning book, Armstrong and Nelles explore the struggle to build and regulate Canada's utilities and the response to the problem of monopoly inherent in these technologies. Using primary sources, many of them unique to this study, the authors have chosen examples from all regions of the country. They illustrate how regionally distinctive operations of utilities, which relied heavily on public ownership, created a diverse yet highly integrated utilities sector." - from the rear cover. Includes mentions of Nova Scotia Power, as well as much dealing with Halifax (including some references to the street railway and the strikes of 1913 and 1918), plus New Brunswick Electric Power Commission and Telephone Company points. Very good. 15.00